IT consultant found guilty of killing Cash App founder

A California IT consultant was convicted on Tuesday, December 17, of the fatal knife attack on tech executive Bob Lee in San Francisco.

Nima Momeni, 40, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2023 killing of Lee, the founder of money transfer service Cash App.

Momeni was acquitted of first-degree murder by a jury in San Francisco that deliberated for a week, the Associated Press reported.

“We are glad that Nima Momeni will not be on the streets, he will no longer have the opportunity to harm anyone in this world,” Lee’s brother Tim Oliver Lee told reporters after the verdict, according to the AP. “We think justice was served here today.”

The 43-year-old father of two called 911 for help before he was found with fatal stab wounds to his heart and lungs on a sidewalk in San Francisco’s Rincon Hill neighborhood at 2:35 a.m. April 4. He later died at a local hospital.

Lee, who recently moved to Miami, was in San Francisco and attended a party at a condo in the Millennium Tower New York Times reported.

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During the trial, prosecutors portrayed Momeni as angry with Lee after he linked Momeni’s sister to a man who gave her drugs and sexually abused her, according to the AP.

On the morning of the murder, Lee and Momeni were allegedly captured on surveillance footage driving into a dark and remote area of ​​San Francisco after an argument. They were later seen standing on a sidewalk in the Rincon Hill neighborhood where Lee was stabbed.

On the witness stand, Momeni claimed Lee pointed a knife at him after he questioned Lee’s parenting skills, AP reported. Momeni claimed there was an argument over the knife and that he did not realize he had stabbed Lee, only finding out about his death the next day.

“If it was my last night in town, I would be hanging out with my family and not going around strip clubs,” Momeni testified during the trial, according to ABC7. The jury was not convinced by Momeni’s self-defense argument.

Momeni was allegedly caught on video leaving the area in a vehicle at high speed.